Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. The Hitachi Magic Wand is the gold standard in mousetraps for vibrating massagers. Wait, this metaphor is already strained. Let’s start over.
As anyone who owns one knows, the Hitachi Magic Wand is the most powerful vibrator available and the surest way to make many women come. It’s also ugly, clunky, unwieldy, and enormous; it’s the least sexy thing imaginable to have in your bed except maybe Newt Gingrich. Thus, the Holy Grail of sex toy makers is to create something that works like the Hitachi but is cute and sexy and doesn’t have a cord. Okay, I’m liking this Grail metaphor better.
Anyway, toy designers are always working on Hitachi 2.0, and the Mystic Wand is one of the newer entrants into the field.
It’s made by Vibratex, a well-respected company best known for bringing the very popular Rabbit type vibes from Japan to the US market. Most of the company’s products are of the creepy (to me) anthropomorphic Rabbit style and in transparent pastels, so the Mystic Wand stands out in its functional, no-nonsense design. I was impressed by the toy when I took it out of the packaging; it has a silky silicone head and a handle that’s sized for a woman’s hand, easy to grip and a reasonable length. The specs are: Length, 8.5”, Girth 5.9”, and Width 1.8” at its widest point. It looks solid and well-made... and powerful; I was getting really excited by the possibility of replacing my cherished Hitachi with this sleeker little sister! I read the instructions and put the batteries, four AAs, in. Then I tested the buttons. The button for intensity is cleverly designed with a different color light for each setting—deep red is the most intense, reasonably enough. I always ignore the mode setting buttons on these fancy vibrators—I just want the thing to vibrate, not cycle through some complicated dance routine—but I’ve read that, for folks who like to get fancy, the pulsation settings generated by the second button are quite nice.
I was impressed with the power at the highest setting and decided to test this potential new best friend. I put it between my legs and pressed it against my pussy hopefully—and, damn it all, the thing is designed like the Hitachi, with give in the neck area, but it’s got way too much give. You can’t press it against your clit or mons the way you do with a Hitachi. It just bends! What were they thinking? Clearly, they were thinking if some give is good more would be better. Not for me! I use the Hitachi pressed firmly against my mons and I use quite a lot of pressure; the Hitachi is designed to yield only very slightly. I was baffled by the Mystic Wand’s flexible neck. Its vibration was excellent and it’s quite quiet, as well as comfortable to hold. If only it wasn’t so bendy! I tried it for a while, kept it by the bed and tried it again a few times, but I found it really frustrating to have Hitachi-like vibrations without the firm pressure; I never succeeded in having an orgasm with it. As it happens, my boyfriend is one of the percentage of men who respond intensely to the Hitachi so I tried it on him as well. He was disappointed too! “It just doesn’t have the same effect,” he reported sadly. I had been so hopeful! Alas!
I couldn’t help wondering, why would a company so well-known for design make such a mistake? Then it occurred to me that I owned my Hitachi for four years before I had an orgasm with it; it took me a really long time to learn how to tolerate the intensity of its sensation and I initially had to use a washcloth between me and it to damp down the vibrations. So maybe the Mystic Wand would have been a great gateway vibe, with its more forgiving pressure and less focussed pounding. Maybe the Mystic Wand is not a replacement for the Hitachi—apparently, once you’ve become a Hitachi convert, you’re one for life—but an introduction to it, a way to gradually enter the world of hardcore clitoral vibration. And Vibratex makes a G-spotter attachment sized for the Mystic Wand’s head, which is a little smaller than than the Hitachi’s; I know when I tried a G-spotter attachment on my Hitachi years ago, the vibration was much too intense. It actually hurt my G-spot, and I haven’t tried it since. Perhaps the Mystic Wand is a good way to work into a G-spot vibe, as well. It’s too late for me—I’m a Hitachi junkie now, there’s no turning back—but I think the Mystic Wand could be a good friend to those just starting down the vibrating path.
Lovers of the Magic Wand often despair of finding an easily-portable battery powered vibrator that gives them as much sensation as they want. Enter the Mystic Wand! A small, cordless, silicone-clad variation on the plug-in original, the Mystic Wand is 8 1/4" of pure *waterproof* buzz. With stronger vibrations than most battery toys, this contender should be in everyone's toy box! A high-quality motor features six different vibration modes that let you choose from mild, strong, and stronger vibrations plus three pulse intensities with indicator lights, an easy-to-control button on the handle, and a separate on/off switch. Its white silicone head features textured bands and a mobile neck that has the same kind of "give" as Hitachi's famed original.
